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 Andrei Bely (translated by John Cournos)
Petersburg
This book is about linguistic tricks, Rudolf Steiner, and the strangification of what Nabokov described as the way a city whirls above you, completely unfamiliar, before it settles down into a known place.
BIOGRAPHIES, CRITICISM, ESSAYS
George D. Painter
Marcel Proust: A Biography
Lawrance Thompson
Robert Frost: A Biography
eulogy to the Shiants in the Hebrides, to life on isolated islands.
James Attlee
Nocturne: A Journey In Search of Moonlight
A journey to the last places of true darkness and a search for moonlight throughout history and literature.
M.T. Anderson
Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad
The terror years of Stalin and a city surrounded by Hitler’s Wehrmacht, in which a composer writes a symphony that forever captures the horror and the beauty of Russia.
PLAYS
Oscar Wilde
The Importance of Being Earnest An Ideal Husband
Alan Ayckbourn
Henceforward House & Garden Relatively Speaking
POEMS
Dylan Thomas
“Fern Hill,” “Poem in October,” “A Child’s Christmas in Wales,” “And death shall have no dominion,” “Do not go gentle into that good night,” “In My Craft or Sullen Art”
Collected Poems
W. H. Auden
“As I Walked Out One Evening,” “Lullaby,” “Song of the Master and Boatswain,” “Roman Wall Blues,” “Who’s Who,” “O Tell Me the Truth About Love,” “Stop All the Clocks,” “At Last the Secret Is Out,” “If I Could Tell You,” “Musée des Beaux Arts” Collected Poems
Like the great biographies of Proust by Painter or Robert Frost by Thompson, this book has revelations in every sentence: about the people, the stories,
the atmosphere of the most creative time in history, populated with Liszt, George Sand, Chopin, Hugo, Marie d’Agoult.
Stacy Schiff
Véra (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov)
Oscar Wilde
Intentions
Hugh Kenner
The Pound Era
Roger Shattuck
The Banquet Years: The Origins of the Avant-Garde in France, 1885 to World War I
Proust’s Way: A Field Guide to In Search of Lost Time
Douglas Hofstadter
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
Adam Nicolson
Sea Room: An Island Life in the Hebrides
The heir to the great British country house Sissinghurst, Nicolson has written many interesting books about his parents, Vita Sackville-West and Sir Harold Nicolson, who were members of the Bloomsbury crowd. This is a stunning poetic
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